Learning to Walk

Hello blog friends, today has been an interesting day so far. I am learning all about setting up advertising and affiliate programs on my blog and am considering setting up a web store at some point. Like learning to walk, I am taking baby steps and learning as I go. I am hoping this will help me with a small income stream since I am unable to work outside the home due to my son's disability and our lack of transportation (I detest looking for used vehicles....) I am taking baby steps as I learn about ways to make an income from my home. There seem to me to be hundreds of possibilities with a web store, and I am only learning a few of them, I would be interested in hearing from any of you that have done this, I have no idea really what I am doing yet but I am enjoying learning a lot of new things.

In the garden today there are lots of little green tomato's popping up all over the plants, I will have some pics up soon! The pepper plants are showing signs of peppers soon to come. Our other plants are doing pretty well, all the extra stuff I planted is coming up and I think for the one end of the garden anyway, I will get lots of things to put up, tomato's, beans, pickles, salsa and such.

Bubba is working on anatomy in science this summer, I let him chose something he was interested in to learn about for science and that is what he picked. It has been a challenge to write lessons on his level about a subject that is so intense but we are learning and he is loving it!
I hope all of you are doing well and enjoying the summer, while keeping in mind that winter is coming soon enough and there are lots of things to get done to be ready.
Have a wonderful day!

Until next time, Deb~

Rain, Rain...You Know The Rest

Wow, ever since I got to work on the garden, every single day since it was tilled up, it has rained. Dang it, how am I supposed to get it planted? It has been a very wet week! It has also been another very busy week. Since last Thursday when my daughter helped me with getting the garden area tilled, it has rained. Ugh! The last few days of rain have been the kind of rain that is and isn't, you know the kind that doesn't show up on radar

Thanks so much sweetie

because it is so light, yet causes you do need windshield wipers when driving, (or Rain-X...best friend of those of us who had a wiper motor quit for no reason!) feel wet outside after a minute or so, causes everything to have a layer of water on it and of course prevents the ground from drying out AT ALL! I mean I have tried several times to go out to the garden and get something done, but, the whole yard is muddy, it is like trying to .... well work  with mud or clay! I finally just managed to get one small row raked and planted 5 of the tomato plants, if the ground doesn't dry up a little I won't have a back left by the time I get everything planted. Besides it isn't just me, the newspaper I read yesterday said that our farmers have already lost a lot because they can't get the corn in the ground any more than I can get my garden planted. Oh well, we will have to wait a day or two more I reckon and give ole Momma Nature a chance and then see where we are.

In other news I took my son on a "road trip" on Tuesday this week, we went to see Pappy, he called and relayed info on my sisters trip up from near New Orleans and wanted us to come out and meet her there. This is what I got for the drive:

Chewbacca (Chewy)

Isn't he the cutest? My Sis called me and asked me if I wanted a puppy and after hearing her talk about him I said yes. My other dog Willow isn't so happy about the new member of the family and so far she has hidden and growled and barked a lot, but today she came out and sat with me for a little while and watched me play tug with Chewy. She didn't want anything to do with him, but at least she came out of hiding. I sure hope she warms up to him in the coming days! He is only 5 months old and although they had a different name for him, it was too close to the name of a very special dog I had that was killed so I decided we had to change it. Sooo, he finally wound up with Chewbacca, see Bubba is a super Star Wars fan and the little guy does kinds resemble ole chewy sorta in the face....... and man does he like to chew on things! Doesn't matter if it is only the rope leash he is walked on, his monster monkey, a sock, my toes, my pant leg, you get the idea right?! Oh yes, and the cat could care less, he seems to avoid the playful little guy but doesn't seem to care if he is in the house or not.

There, so that has been the bulk of my week, just busy, and of course rainy. We did however have a bright spot today, it was the team meeting for my son. His teacher, (the one that comes to the house) His wraparound case manager and I sat down and went over how things have been in the last month. We had had some problems with him for a little while but now it seems like he has calmed down a lot. We did go through a adjustment of medication doseage but other than that I think he is just doing better since he (we) can get outside more.

In one more week the teacher that comes here will stop coming for the summer and I will be doing all of the homeschooling. We will not be stopping for the summer, it is better for Bubba if we keep going over and over the things he has mastered and adding new things slowly. We have finally reached learning multiplication tables, and he is still having a lot of problems with reading but in science and geography he is doing amazingly well. So we are going to emphasize a lot of the stuff he likes this summer and incorperate some math and reading into them making it more fun for him I hope.

I guess thats about it for todays update, except I know I have promised pics of the plants and garden, please just bear with me a couple of more days and I will get them up! I hope you and yours are having a great spring and getting more done in the garden than I am!

Until next time

Deb~

Preparing Our Garden Spot

Today, in between the raindrops, my son and I are removing sod from the area that will become our garden in just a few weeks. We have had to work between the raindrops as it has rained here nearly every day for a while now. Okay well, not EVERY day, just most of them and for a little while the yard was too saturated to work in. 

It is still pretty moist (okay today it is almost muddy again) but it kinda makes it easier to cut the sod out. Bubba thinks it is too heavy since his job is to pull up the sod and put it in the wheelbarrow when I get it cut out. We do a little each day since I can't physically do the entire job at once, but a little a day is better than none and soon we will be able to add the compost and plant our garden.

I also have the raspberry and grape plants to get in the ground this week as it looks like winter has finally lost the battle with spring and I think we are past the last frost now. (keeping fingers crossed here) the herbs we started are doing well except for the chives, I finally gave up on the first batch last week since nothing sprouted after a month and replanted a new packet (maybe the first packet was a dud) so here's hoping the new batch will sprout soon!


In the sewing room, I have gather some material and am in the process of cutting out another dress for my granddaughters and I found a sheet with a nice pattern on it that I am cutting to make a new muu muu (I just love them, I could wear one all the time they are so comfy)

Soon, I will be getting the summer patterns I want for the kids and start on their summer clothes. I am looking forward to all the new things that will come from my sewing room.

I have also decided to continue through the summer with Bubba's schooling, we aren't going to take a summer break like the other kids do, since he only spends an hour a day on his studies we figured it wouldn't be a big deal to continue that through the summer and hopefully he will retain more this way instead of spending the first few months re-learning everything from the previous year!

And finally in fun stuff news I am planning my first bon fire party of the year for early June. By then it will be warm enough to be comfortable after dark. I have been having my bon fires for a few years now and they are great. We have a pitch-in dinner followed by loads of fun around the fire.

Since I live in a new place this time I have to start fresh beginning with a new fire pit. This time I am going to go up to the Rural King and buy a barrel to cut, then instead of using the bottom section, I am going to use the top and place it over a old stump in the yard, I figure after a while of having the bon fires the stump will be burned out! (besides the stump is in the perfect place in my yard for the fire pit.) I can't wait! The bon fires have always been so much fun for us, so much so that it played into my decision to move here last year. This place is very close to where I lived when I started having them and so far I have had friends asking when the first one of the year would be, so I don't think I could even get away with not having them!

So that's what is happening in my little corner of the world, how bout you? What kinds of things are you doing this spring??

Until next time,
Deb~